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WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH

Both movi e om wildly ventive filmmakers wh styl so specific their films n feel like their own mi-genr, but they share half-baked gay subtexts that fall short of their amb visns. In a story about two men on a serted island, the homoeroticism is practilly baked to the log-le. ” But a foppish Hler is the least of Wai’s troubl — the real homoeroticism to play wh Sam Rockwell’s character.

(Wai don’t even beg to addrs that the Nazis were sendg gay people to ncentratn mps. The movie’s “exclively gay moment” may be lour than the one “The Lighthoe, ” but ’s far more problematic, as Wai plays for edic affect to generate sympathy for his characters — queerns as shorthand for humany. Of urse, neher Wai or Eggers are gay, which is not to say straight filmmakers n’t or shouldn’t e queer elements their work.

In Jojo Rabb (2019), both Capta Klenzendorf and Freddie Fkle’s self-ma uniforms have upsi down pk triangl, which is the patch Nazis would give to distguish homosexuals ncentratn mps. While n not be ignored there is a loyalty that lgers, votn to a untry is hard to break, there is a sad realizatn that Capta Klenzendorf is gay, hidg for his life the ranks of the Nazis, his partner Fkel (Alfie Allen) by his si and his flask to pe. Are there any non homosexual JoJo characters?

WHY THE GAY SUBPLOTS ‘THE LIGHTHOE’ AND ‘JOJO RABB’ DON’T GO FAR ENOUGH

Jojo’s mom Rosie (Srlett Johansson) is a heroic ristance fighter; the boy’s mp director Capta Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwell) is a flamboyant closeted gay man; his bt iend Yorki (Archie Yat) is an archetypal pudgy sikick who, like Jojo, is enthiastic about the Reich whout havg any scerely nasty nvictns; and Klenzendorf’s right-hand woman Fräule Rahm (Rebel Wilson) is a buffoon who is meant to be charmgly loopy. Ambiguoly Gay: He has a somewhat mpy meanor, and is spicly close wh his subordate Fkel. This is further rerced by Klenzendorf and Fkel rporatg pk triangl, symbols ed Nazi ncentratn mps to note homosexuals, to their flamboyant last stand uniforms.

Wai later nfirmed a Q&A that at least Klenzendorf is gay, though word's still out on Fkel. This is taken further when Word of Gay nfirms that he is fact a homosexual and therefore has very good reasons for wantg the Nazis to lose. Allerative Name: Freddy Fkel Ambiguoly Gay: His relatn wh Klenzendorf seems to go beyond the profsnal.

There is also his fal uniform beg vered wh pk triangl, which Nazis ed to intify "homosexuals" the mps. )The movie’s “exclively gay moment” may be lour than the one “The Lighthoe, ” but ’s far more problematic, as Wai plays for edic affect to generate sympathy for his characters — queerns as shorthand for humany. Maybe that would have felt radil or bold 25 years ago, but 2019, ’s jt pla urse, neher Wai or Eggers are gay, which is not to say straight filmmakers n’t or shouldn’t e queer elements their work.

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